Alan Blaine Whitney

Lately I have been using svn with a few various PHP websites that I maintain.  In short, here is what I have found out.

Once you get used to typing svn commit and svn update, it’s addicting.  That is a very slick way to go about dev.  I have used it update live websites with svn update, to do development from various places (tele-commute days versus at work).

Here are some things that I don’t like about it.  Inital imports and checkouts take forever, there is no tar like thing to transfer just one file.  Can really take a while sometimes.  This is my biggest problem.  My second thing, is that php websites always have some files you can’t track in the repo, like config files, template caches, or other tmp files, so you also have to remember to svn delete them.

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